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Monuments for Solitude (Poda Island)

Materials:

wood

Story

Telephones have been a groundbreaking invention connecting people separated by distance. The development of telephone booths made it possible for transit people to make phone calls. Currently, as smartphones have become the norm, these public phone booths, once ubiquitous points of connection, have become redundant. They are lonely relics of yesterday’s technology, particularly in remote areas where the cost for maintenance or removal is highly unaffordable. This project addresses these “relics” in Krabi.
The artist turns these obsolete booths into a space of contemplation by reinstalling these useless phone booths in a quiet area within natural sites. The booths are not equipped with telephones, but with a pieces of petrified wood. The wood representing a de facto witness of time, replacing that generic object of communication with a mute, solemn subject for one to contemplate and to reconnect with themselves.
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Leung Chi

Leung Chi Wo

Hong Kong

LEUNG Chi Wo lives in Hong Kong. In 2001, he exhibited in Hong Kong’s first participation in the Biennale di Venezia. His recent exhibitions include Asia Triennial Manchester, UK (2014).